The Middle Temple Murder

by J S Fletcher

Overview

Frank Spargo, a young newspaperman, comes upon a murder scene in the early hours of the morning in Middle Temple Lane, London. The victim has no identification, only a piece of paper with the name of a young barrister, Ronald Breton. Spargo, together with Breton and DI Rathbury from Scotland Yard, sets out to solve the crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781985198760
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/09/2018
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

J.S.Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author, regarded to be a leading writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1863, the son of a clergyman. His father was expired when he was only eight months old and he was brought up by his grandmother in Yorkshire. When he was eighteen, Fletcher went to London to study Law and this understanding of crime was of great use to him in his career as a writer of mystery and adventure. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He was fellow of the Royal Historical Society who had studied law before turning to journalism. His literary career covered approximately 200 books on a wide variety of subjects including fiction, non fiction, histories, historical fiction, and mysteries. His first published novel was a historical novel, When Charles the First was King (1892). The Middle Temple Murder is a famous novel of Fletcher. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and move on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher married the novelist and playwright Rosamund Langbridge. Fletcher expired in Surrey in 1935.